Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DE379

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a multiple award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to Avnik Defense Solutions Inc., a woman-owned small business, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The contract, awarded December 29, 2025, carries a ceiling value of $151 billion and extends through December 28, 2035, with no small business set-aside designation. Under this IDV, Avnik Defense Solutions Inc. will provide programmatic, technical, and logistics management services supporting the development, integration, and deployment of an advanced multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing threats to the United States homeland, deployed forces, allies, and friends across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid domains. The work encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts across all phases of flight for ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats, leveraging emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures.

The initial task order, issued concurrently with contract award, carries a $500 ceiling value and establishes a firm fixed price delivery order with performance to be conducted in Huntsville, Alabama through December 28, 2035. The underlying solicitation, released as a pre-solicitation notice in May 2025 with final release in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, was structured for full and open competition allowing multiple awards to all qualifying offerors meeting responsibility standards, technical acceptability, and fair and reasonable pricing criteria. The SHIELD IDIQ vehicle is designed to serve as a comprehensive contracting mechanism for the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders across multiple classification levels, security domains, and contract types, supporting both classified and unclassified programs and allowing leveraging of Avnik's existing expertise in DoD research and development across Army and Navy platforms.